Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Neptunium-239:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:239.052931±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):49.305273±0.002133MeV
    Binding Energy:1806.982011±0.002158MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.721796±0.000874MeV
"The 1995 update to the atomic mass evaluation" by G.Audi and A.H.Wapstra, Nuclear Physics A595 vol. 4 p.409-480, December 25, 1995.
Radioactive Decay Data:

  • Spin: 5/2+
  • Half life: 2.3565 days ( 203602 sec., λ = 3.40443×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    239
    94
    Pu
      (Q = 0.722 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    239
    92
    U
    α from
    243
    95
    Am
R.R.Kinsey, et al.,The NUDAT/PCNUDAT Program for Nuclear Data,paper submitted to the 9 th International Symposium of Capture-Gamma_raySpectroscopy and Related Topics, Budapest, Hungary, Octover 1996.Data extracted from NUDAT database (Jan. 14/1999)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
751.40 ns5/2- +2.0(3) [237Np 60]IPACNP A104 588 (67)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.